Fuji 450km SUPER GT – schedule, how to watch, entry list

A complete of 42 automobiles, 15 in GT500 and 27 in GT300, are entered for Sunday’s 450km (100 lap) race.

With three races down and 5 to go, it is TOM’S Toyota pair Ritomo Miyata and Sho Tsuboi that maintain the lead of the standings in GT500, having received on the championship’s earlier go to to Fuji in Could. They backed that up with a powerful run to second final trip at Suzuka.

Nonetheless, Miyata and Tsuboi face a troublesome problem to make it three podium finishes on the bounce as they are going to be laden with a nominal 72kg of success ballast, making them the one crew within the GT500 discipline to hold the stage two gasoline stream restrictor.

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NDDP Nissan drivers Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi sit second within the championship, seven factors behind the leaders, and will likely be saddled by a stage one gasoline stream restrictor (58kg).

Conversely, many different automobiles arrive at Fuji nonetheless working mild on ballast after a disappointing begin to the 12 months.

One of many favourites for victory would be the Kondo Racing Nissan of Daiki Sasaki and Kohei Hirate (6kg), who scored pole at Suzuka solely to be penalised for a uncommon gasoline tank infraction. Yokohama lastly ended its seven-year win drought that weekend courtesy of the Racing Venture Bandoh Toyota crew, so there are not any doubts that the tyres are as much as the job.

Likewise, the 2 ARTA Mugen NSX-GTs are nonetheless comparatively mild, and will provide Honda the very best likelihood of opening its win account for 2023. Explicit consideration will likely be paid to the #8 automotive of Tomoki Nojiri and Toshiki Oyu (22kg), which has Iori Kimura registered as a 3rd driver in case Oyu can not race as a result of collarbone damage he sustained final month.

Toyota veteran Yuji Tachikawa will even be eager to attain a powerful outcome alongside Cerumo team-mate Hiroaki Ishiura on his ultimate go to to Fuji, having introduced his retirement final week.

Within the GT300 class, each the Kondo Racing Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 (Joao Paulo de Oliveira/Teppei Natori) and Inging Toyota GR86 GT (Hibiki Taira/Yuui Tsutsumi/Hiroki Katoh), which jointly-lead the factors, arrive at Fuji laden with 90kg of success ballast.

The complexion of the battle between the GT3s and lighter JAF-GT300 automobiles will likely be modified by a brand new rule that dictates that necessary pitstops can solely be made out of lap 5 onwards. The rostrum at Suzuka was crammed by automobiles that made their first stops throughout the first two laps.

A brand new GT3 automotive arrives on the grid within the type of the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2, which will likely be pushed by JLOC pairing Takashi Kogure and Yuya Motojima this weekend after a profitable shakedown final week.

SUPER GT time schedule for Fuji Spherical 4

Instances are Native/UK time (GMT+1)/EDT/PDT 

Saturday August 5

Free apply (1h45 minutes) – 9am/1am/8pm (Friday)/5pm (Friday)

Qualifying – 3.20pm/7.20am/2.20am/11.20pm (Friday)

Sunday August 6

Heat-up – 12.15pm/4.15am/11.15pm (Saturday)/8.1pm (Saturday)

Race (100 laps) – 1.45pm/5.45am/12.45am/9.45pm (Saturday)

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How can I watch SUPER GT at Fuji?

Motorsport.television will as soon as once more offer full protection of each qualifying and the race for each spherical of the 2023 SUPER GT season (subscription required, out there worldwide besides Japan).

Commentary will likely be supplied by Jake Sanson and Motorsport.com’s personal professional Japanese racing analyst Jamie Klein.

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SUPER GT entry listing for Fuji Spherical 4

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